Hacker-Pschorr Sternweisse | Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH

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A different take on the contemporary version of the Hefeweizen, they brewery focuses on a generous amount of specialty malts. The clove, banana taffy and dry breadiness are all present with a wrapping of subtle caramel. A great switch from the norm.

AROMA: Smells like a Hefe, but different. Sweet banana almost over ripe. Hints of orange and other citrus. Some floral hops in the back ground. A lot of farm yard yeasty esters, hay?. Lots of ripe fruit. APPEARANCE: Beautiful deep amber color, somewhere between a Hefe and a Dunkle. White head that faded quicker than I expected. TASTE: This is like a complex Hefe. All the notes you would expect from a Hefe are there bu there is a depth to them. Bready, wheat character. Rich flavor, almost dough like, but with banana/citrus sweetness. Then the clove spiciness hits you hard in the nose at the finish. Really good. PALATE: Warming rich medium-full mouth feel. Creamy spite the heaver carbonation. Finish is long. OVERALL: I am a huge German wheat beer fan and this is one that I can get behind. It like the best of both worlds between a Hefe and a Dunkle. I don’t know if a Sternwessie is actually a beer style or one just came up with to describe this version of a Hefe but it is damn good.

S -- Sweet malt in first, fruity esters following up with some pepper and clove spiciness from proprietary yeasts.

T -- Rich, bready malts up front that blend into wheat malt then into the banana and clove character so identified with a good Bavarian Weizen. The finish is more bready malts -- sweet with melanoidin touches, and a lingering aftertaste of clove spiciness.

M -- Soft and smooth mouthfeel with a medium to almost heavy body.

O -- This is not H-P's usual Hefeweizen; it's more of a crosstown cousin to Schneider's Original Weizen (Tap 7) and a very good counterpart at that. I'm not sure this would be as refreshing as the lighter bodied Weizen beers in summer, but this is a great example of the range Weizens can be brewed.

Pours into a weizen glass a murky amber/brown with a fluffy white head atop.Aromas are fruity with some yeast,fruity but not "standard" weizen aromas.The palate starts out with some phenols then a deep fruitiness that I don't get from may of the style,some vanilla-like cookie dough in the finish makes for a complex flavor profile.A dunkel weisse?Iam not sure but alot going on for a small weizen beer.

Taste: Though I would think that this beer should be drank as fresh as possible, it still retains a hell of alot of flavor, not a sipping brew at 5.5 but very tasty, I prefer mine with yeast it gives it that doughy richness, a faint lemon zest is there, but it is slightly more balanced, probably from the yeast alone, than their flagship brew.
Drinkability: This beer is about as drinkable as they come, in the finish there is a touch of residual sweetness and sour zest that keeps me from giving it a five, but overall a stellar creation.

L: hazy dark amber to tea, 2” lightly tan tinted foam cap that persists and hugs the side of the glass.
S: Fruit and nuts with traces of banana.
T: A big nutty palate with hints of light brown cake and banana.
F: Very creamy, soft texture with medium body and above average carbonation.
O: A Hefeweizen with more nut flavors than they typical banana clove palate.

Slightly stronger, richer weissbier. Lots of banana and cloves in the aroma. Sweet mouthfeel, tart, wheaty, soft and round. The banana and cloves also came through on the palate, mouthfeel is a bit fruit nectary, quite refreshing, and pretty bloody tasty in the end, i liked it very much.

(Served in a Weizen glass)
produced on 03/08
A- This beer has a slightly hazy dark orange hue to the body with a slow carbonation of big bubbles gliding to the surface. There a thick rocky off-white head forms and last for much of the beer.

S- This beer has a light caramel toasted wheat note with a soft pine finish.

T- The flavor of canned peaches in water comes through with a yeasty note to follow. There is a soft wheat and clove note in there and a club soda finish with a hint of pine hops.

M- This beer has a full mouthfeel with is supported by that big head and a fizzy note in the finish.

D- This beer is not terrible exciting and the flavors/smells are pretty muted. However I liked what I tasted just wanted more. I just got tired of drinking it about half way through.

Aroma is citrus with yeast phenols. I didn't have enough room in my weizen glass for the entire bottle so most of the yeast hasn't been decanted as of yet.

Flavor is soft wheat with a smooth banana and light citrus character. Carbonation feels surprisingly low based on the looks of the beer while in the mouth but at swallow leaves a really nice little burning sensation on the back of the tongue. Barely any hop bitterness to speak of... just balancing.

Mouthfeel leans to watery but also coats and leaves a slight sweet base all over. Light dryness.

---For the second part of the pour I roused quite a bit of yeast sediment which makes for a much darker appearance. Quite cloudy as expected and as a result aroma and flavor both improve with this. All is just a bit more pronounced. Mouthfeel is a bit thicker too. ---

Overall a nice weisse beer that's not over the top. Will remember this one for warmer days of summer. Well enjoyed on this late fall evening nonetheless!

A very decent beer,drinkable, though nothing too memorable.A light bitterness other than a big wheatiness. The carbonation and wheat is on the tongue and works with supper. The wheat aroma is there. Not too heady. Cloves stay on the aftertaste.Fairly fresh from Cleveland.

The second of four small-batch releases from this legendary German brewery, Hacker-Pschorr's Sternweisse is a dark wheat beer/hefeweizen that pours a cloudy, murky amber in my Hacker-Pschorr hefe glassware. I get a rich, frothy head of off-white carbonation and some minor lacing.

The aroma here is strong on the spices. I get wheat, caramel, coriander and some traces of clove. Very promising start, indeed!

The taste is sweet but well-balanced. It's a malt-based beer, of course, but the touch of spice adds some depth. I get some dark fruit underneath it all, too, before it finishes with a citrusy lemon spice hint.

This is an exquisite, complex, and very very drinkable brew, light enough for Summer (or anytime) enjoyment.

Murky dark orange color with off-white head. Aroma has sweet, slightly caramelized malt and some banana. Taste is also on the sweet side with nice wheat notes and some yeast. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Quite good weizen, leaning towards the dunkelweizen style with its slightly toasted notes.

Served into a weizen glass from a 500 ml. flip top bottle. Sternweisse pours dark and murky for a hefeweizen, along the lines of a Schneider Weisse. An inch or so of light tan foam offers relatively short retention but is more typical as for lacing.

Quite spicy on the nose with cinnamon, pepper and clove most notable, a bit of wheat in the background and very little banana notes until a final yeast/foam addition. The winter spices seems added vs. a byproduct of the yeast to a degree. Some light caramel blankets the yeast subtleties initially, though the nose dose open up with some warming.

Taste follows with caramel and wheat dueling it out. Finishes with muddled cinnamon and clove which linger nicely. Feel is a bit light for the style as the richer malt structure smooths out what would otherwise be the typical bready wheat texture. Quite drinkable and seems like a 'Winter Weizen' to me though this sample was over a year old and may have suffered a bit along the way, as Hefe's surely don't age well and I assume this beer is much better fresh.